//Copyright 2008 Kristian Gundry And Rune Juhl-Petersen
//This file is part of Plain.

//Plain is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
//it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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//Plain is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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//You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Plain.Search;

namespace Plain.Data
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Enables searching in dao
	/// </summary>
    /// <typeparam name="T">Specifies the type (T), the dao can handle</typeparam>
    /// <typeparam name="TT">Specifies the type (TT), of the identifier for the type T</typeparam>
	public interface ISearchableDao<T,TT>:IDao<T,TT> where T:IBusinessEntity<TT>{
		/// <summary>
		/// Perform search
		/// </summary>
        /// <param name="crit"><see cref="Criteria"/> to create the search from</param>
		/// <returns>IList of <typeparamref name="T"/></returns>
		//IList<T> Search(Criteria crit);

        IList<T> Search(Criteria crit,IDictionary<string,object> parameters,long start,long end,string order);
        //IList<T> Search(Criteria crit, long start, long end, string order);
        //IList<T> Search(Criteria crit, IDictionary<string, object> parameters, string order);
        int GetCount(Criteria crit, IDictionary<string, object> parameters);
	}
}
